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15/1/2015

Andre' Lutzen / Ron Jude

Robert Morat Galerie, Hamburg

Andre' Lutzen
Zhili Byli

Arkhangelsk, Russia, 155 miles off the polar circle. Hamburg based photographer André Lützen visited a city, where everyday life is determined by icy temperatures, long nights and extreme climate. "If the climate defines the way of life, if long and cold winters govern the rhythm and one grows up within these conditions, the climate does not seem as extreme", tells Lützen. "The people who live here have their ways to plan their daily routine. They think about how to organise, how long to stay outside soon to return to a well-tempered room."

In his photographic work, Lützen attends to these rooms and their inhabitants: "For our western eyes a city of timberhouses and buildings made with precast concrete slabs in the snow seems dreary. But it is not, since its residents move and treat each other differently. The cold brings the people together. The individualisation, which determines our society, is not that distinctive there. Helping each other is more common."

André Lützen, born in 1963, lives and works in Hamburg. A monograph titled "Zhili Byli" was published by Peperoni Books, Berlin.

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Ron Jude
Lick Creek Line

In his photographic series "Lick Creek Line" Ron Jude follows a fur trapper into the wilderness of the American West. But just as the route of the trapper along a river takes him deeper and deeper into nature and further and further away from the security of human settlements, the photographic series itself takes the viewer into uncertain territory. Documentary photography that, just a moment ago, still had been conceived as actual representation of reality, dissolves into the poetic freedom of a fictional narrative. While following his subject along the river, Jude reflects on the possibilities of storytelling in photography, on the blurring line between documentary and fiction in his work and on the new space that is thus created. "For every good story", says Joerg Colberg in his review of the work, "requires an empty space that the reader / viewer can insert a part of himself / herself."

Ron Jude, born in 1965, lives and works Upstate New York. His work is in major collections such as the George Eastman House, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art or the Georgia Museum of Contemporary Art in Atlanta. The book to the series was published by Mack Books, London.

Image: Ron Jude Abandoned Cabin. From Lick Creek Line, 1998/2011

Opening Reception on Friday, January 16 2015 at 6pm

Robert Morat Galerie
Kleine Reichenstr. 1, 20457 Hamburg
Hours: Tue-Fri 12-6pm, Sat 12-4pm

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